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To: koan who wrote (174508)	10/25/2011 10:36:47 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) of 541709

But I have never thought Newt was very smart. I never saw him do anything smart. I don't think many on the right are smart. Smart means having the correct ideas which does include compassion. Who on the right has correct ideas? I get your point, koan, but you run the risk of arguing that people who disagree with you are dumb simply because they disagree with you; and smart because they agree with you; and correct because they agree with you. After a few disagreements, that can well leave you alone on an island surrounded by everyone else. An illustration. One of the genuinely smart foreign policy thinkers of the 70s and 80s was Henry Kissinger; yet, with few and somewhat notable exceptions, I could not have disagreed more with him. His Chilean policy was about as wrong headed as it could be, but not because Kissinger was dumb. But because he valued much different outcomes than I did.

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